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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 12C8, 1916,
COMPANY MEETING.
SEMAMBU RUBBER ESTATES, LTD.
At the third annual general meeting of-the- Sanamha-Bubber Es
Ltd held at Shanghai a dix of ten candareens per share (muking 15 per cout for the year) was declared and passed, and, on the proposition of Mr.
F. J. Burrett, it was resolved that a sum not exceeding Tis, 1,500, out of the current year's profits, he paid, at the Director discretion, for the benefit of
some War Fand.
PROFITS OF THE T.KK.
BIG DIVIDEND DESPITE LOSS OF
"CHIYO MARU.”.......
WAR OF THE MICROBES,
BACTERIOLOGISTS LEADING
PART
In spile of the loss of the Chiyo Maru, It has been said that the greatest of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha will still be able Napoleon's battles was a mere pothouse to pay a dividend of 15 per cent per skirmish in comparison with the tremend auum for the first six months of 1916, ous struggle which is fought out in the according to a statement made by Mr. human body as a fever run its course, 6. Asano, president of the company, as No quarter is given in the fight to a reported r the Japan Advertiser finish between the horde of invading. (Tokio, April 10th). The principal microbes and the garrison of leucocytes; and if the citadel fails, it is sacked by stockholders in the company were assured all the foulest forms of rudimentary life of the good financial condition of the and is lost at last in the forgetful earth company at a meeting held at the a raindrop vanishes in the sea. The Tamachi residence of Mr. Asano on victory of the garrison is life, their de April 17th. Over forty persons, each of feat death; and the whole history of the whom holds more than 500 shares in the invisible warfare may be summed up in company, attended.
on
Mr. G. Graytigge, who presided; said the planted area had been increased during the year by 10 acres and a further
Me. Asano, reported. area of about 161 meres was being opened
the recent Chigg up and should be completed by the disaster to the big liner Maru off autumn of this year. In view of the Hongkong, to discuss which the meeting large arnilable working capital, which
was called. He said that a work boat of was invested in 5 per cent. British Ex- the Yamashina Marine Company, with chequer Bonds, it was proposed to bring several divers on board, recently arrived the planted area of the estates up to at at the scene, and the divers had made least 1,000 acres. Since the report was
n careful investigation of the inside of issued they had been offered 556 acres of the steamer and examined the damaged jangle adjoining the Semiamba Estate at parts, but whether the vessel can be $10 per acre, and had authorised the saved or will be left in the hands of the purchase of same, aubject to the mana-insurance companies has not yet been ger's examination of the suitability of ascertained.
the land for heren....
Mr. Asano expressed regret that owing to the disaster the company lost about The crop of rubber harvested during Ye50,000 of profits which it was hoped the year was 93.501 h. It would have would be made from the ill-fated liner been considerably inore if tappers had daring the arst six months of the cur been available. The estimate for 1910rent year. However, the recent per was 117,000 lb.
cent rise in the freight rates for the The average fo.b. cost of production American lines, which has been granted for both estates was 1/3.66 against 1/5.44 by the Government, will make good, be for the preceding year. Based, on the said, a part of this loss from the Chiy estimated output the fob costs this year form. For this reason, he said the cou should be reduced to about 17, per Ib.pany, despite the disaster, will still be The sales amounted to 1,566 h, of able to make a profit of about Y.2,000,000 which 22,808 lb. were sold in London and during the frat six months of this year, the balance in Singapore; the average and will be able to declare a dividend grades compared with 1/11.70 in 1914. previous six months, or 15 per cent. As A forward sale of 1 ton a month Jano the other six months of this year, uary-June delivery at an equivalent of Mr. Asano said that if the conditions 3/2 London, was made in November last. of shipping business continue as good as The planted area on both estates had they now are, the company will be able been clean weeded throughout the year to make a pretty good profit for those at a cost of 80 cents per nere per month six months as well. Da Semambu and 60 cents on Ruby. Both estates were in excellent condition.
these lincs:
جم بیشتر
Millions with millions blindly wrought Unarmed, uncaptained, and untaught; For them no flaring battle-cry; No Baming banners tust on high. Tine was when this warfare, of in- finitesimals was undreamed of by mortal man, but to-day the physician is so well equainted with its silent and unseen processes that he can often, by taking thought, award victory in the end to the beleaguered garrison
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PARADES 5.-Parades for Friday, 12th inst.
8.30 p.m. Defaulters' drill at Head
quarters under Co Sergt. Major - Witchell.
5.30 p.m. Recruits of Right Section M.G. Co, Squad drill at Head: quarters.
6.30 p.m. Artillery Battery gun- drill at Gun Club Hill Sergeant Bradley will attend. H. K. resi- dents will parade at p.m. at Star Ferry Wharf, Hongkong. and proceed to Gun Club Hill, Kowloon, by 5,05 p.m. ferry ander the orders of the Officer or senior- N.C.O. present.
DETAIL
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6. On duty to-night: No.. Section
Artillery Battery,
Next for duty: Left Section M.G..
Company
Orderly Officer 12th to 18th inst
Lieut. Well.
A. F. CHURCHILL, Capt..
Adjutant, H. K.T.C. HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.
BAND PRACTICES.
Monday, May 15th-At Central Station,
at 6.13 p.m. sharp.
Thursday. May 18th. At Central
Station, at 6.15 p.. sharp.
EQUIPMENT BOARD,
Monday, May 15th-No. 9 Section. Tuesday, May 16th-No. 3 Beetion. Wednesday, May 17th. Section. Thursday, May 18th-No. 5 Bection. Friday, May 19th.-No. 1 Section.
F. C. Jakin, “
D.B. P. (8.)
Wherever and whenever a wounded soldier is carried out of the far Hung battle lines of the Allies, a brave op- portunity occurs for this work of benen cent intervention. The slightest wound is a theatre of warfare between deadly microbes and leucocytes; and, if the re sources of medicine are not wisely utilisedy a combatant will be missing from the ranks of civilisation. It is im possible to overrate the military value of Other a competent Medical Service. things being equal, the issue of a war depends on the proportion of the disabled who can be cured and roturned to the trenches. A good hospital system pre and successful method of cleansing wounds may be worth a Brigade or more and a surgeon of genius, who inspires imitators, is as good as a Battalion to his side. So that all who are trying to follow the war intelligently ought to be as keenly interested in the work of our Medical Service as in that of the fight- Ing. armis. Of course the lay mind: is Further extensions to the factory would
incapable of understanding all the be necessary this year; the installation of
triumphs of technique recorded in me- power machinery, however, was postpon-
dical journals from time to time and ed until machinery prices were pormal:
summarised in Major A. J. Hull's re ADVANCE ON CTESIPHON: The issued capital was now Tl. 300,000.
cently published work on the subject. Surplus funds amounting to £10,000 were
But every educated person can appre invested in British 5 per cent. Exchequer
In the House of Lords recently Lord ciate the scientific Hair and practical Bonds. This money would eventually be Beresford asked whether the General skill with which the larger problems of required in the F.M.S. for the develop Officer Commanding the British Forces curative treatment in the present war ment of the new extensions. The nettlesloged at Kut-el-Amara had recom-
have been faced and satisfactorily solved. profit for the year amounted to Thamended, or was responsible for, the deci
German medical science cannot, of course, which 40,908.84, to
must be
added on to advance on Ctesiphon, or whether, fuil history of the Great War can he
be belittled in any way. But, when the. the balance from 3914, Tls 8,659.10, in carrying out that advance, he was only giving a total of Tls. 49,477.04. De-acting under the direct orders of the
written, we shall probably and that our ducting from this the dividend paid General Officer Commanding the Forces Medical Service actually achieved a ότι 16/2/16, Tis 15,000,00, there in Mesopotamia. He reminded the House tactical and perhaps a strategic superi
The that an accident or a roverse in this part ority, and so played an indispensab with what fell to lucky crews in the palmy $1.10 remained available Tis. 34,477.94.
Directors recommended this balance of the world would mean the loss of our From the medical point of view, as days of the 18th century After the cap
part in securing a victorions decision. prestige, and the Turks would be able to say they had beaten us not only in
from all others, this war is unique. The ture of the single Spanish ship Hermione Europe, but in Asia. He understood very magnitude of the campaign, which in 1782 by the Active and the Favourite General Townshend started with less than
han compelled the presence in the theatre the rear-admiral and the commodora, who of war of so large a proportion of the had not even been present, received be- one division when he ought to have had not less than three. The Government had nation's able-bodied manhood, has made breen-them £64,063 28. Bd. Of the Active's the medical affair a thing apart. crew, Captain Sawyer got £65,033 188. said they were anxiously considering the The best brains of the profession have 9d., three-commissioned officers each- 733.17 position, bat that position was caused by
been mobilised; world famous civilian 13,004 14s. Id eight warrant others 300.00 their own folly, their own want of know-specialists have worked in cordial co each £4,356 39. 2d., 20 petty officers each Indge of war, and by their not paying operation with the military surgeons: £1,800-10: 10d. and 150 semen and attention to their policy and then turn and theory has been freely reviewed and marines each £186 s. 4d total, £231,020 › ing it over to the soldier and the sailor revised in the light of new and surprising 12s The Favourite's share was £203,181: to dictate what forces were necessary experience. In no previous war has the 4s 3d. Twenty wagons triumphantly All these auxiliary expeditions had been bacteriologist played such a leading part. brought the treasure from Portsmouth to
series of gambles, for political necessiThe South African War had not pre London. ties and not for military necessities Repared the doctors in khaki for the vast hoped his remarks would not be called importance of the problems of wound mischievous, for he really wanted to help infection. Those who served in the illi- the Government. He had not taken much mitable, sparsely populated plains of But, all said and done, it is the fnot part in public life lately, but he had writ
South Africa, under cloudless skies and that a wound in this war is 1180 a fen a letter to the Prime Minister which in an uncontaminated 'atmosphere, were disease, that an invasion of microbes is he would have leave to publish by and-by, inelined at first to regard wound infecoften the deadlier danger, which most and he assured the House that if his ad- tion as of secondary consequence. They manifestly distinguishes this wondrous. vice had been taken the Lusitania would were but ill-prepared for work in a war from all others waged in the near JAPANESE SHIPPING PROFÍTS. Fnot have been torpedoed and we should crowded garden-land which has been past. In the near past-for, we cannot not have lost battleships in the Darda abounds in deadly bacteria. In South anaesthetics and antisepties into the pre-
heavily manured . for centuries
and well bring the wars of the days before uelles. The relief party which was dis OWNERS REAPING A HARVEST. patched to the aid of the garrison at Kut Africa the fighting Zulus never band-sent comparison; a field hospital, in the would itself have to be relieved. The raged their wounds; air and unlight Napoleonic ers was an ferrio that The phenomenal profits derived from lief expedition ought not to have started were sufficient to keep then clean and hardly bears thinking of. The horrors-
healthy. So with our soldiers, a wound thereof are but dimly shadowed forth in shipping continue to be a feature of the till it was absolutely ready and certain to was just a wound more often than not the Erckmann, Chatrain novels, which be able to go straight to General Towns the surgeon's chief, business was the re- DARTICULARS and CONDITIONS of situation 'in Japan, says the Liverpool hend.. He would like to know whether pairing of visible, tangible injuries. On who had followed Napoleon's star eveni were based on the experiences of veterans General Townshend, was responsible for the West front to-day a wound is much to its, setting. As a boy I talked with to be held on MONDAY, the 15th day of May, 1916, at 3 P.., at the Offices of theipp Yusen Kaisha made a profit of he was consulted as to the number the phase of an accomplished surgeon ferino, and hus gruesome story is branded During the last business we the the advance on Baghdad and whether more than a wound. To use the pith
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Tis. To the payment of a final divi-ne
dend of 10 candareena per share, waking 15 per cent. for the year Write off plant and machinery Write-off wells and water supply. Write off furniture
Write off livestock, etc.
Write off buildings
Commission 10 administrative
staff as per agreements) "(estate manager and general
MATingers)
30,000.00 773.90 883.77
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Tis. 34,131.81 "Leaving to be carried forward.. 346.43
Tix 34,477,97 The usual resolutions were put and carried.
Prize money now is a trifle compared
18 EXCELLENCY: THE GOVERNOR, of Quesoine 5 millions, as against about 2pment of the force be considered We have to remember now that a wound into my remembrance He lay on the Lot of CROWN TAND at Shaokiwan Road millions recorded for the previous terii, necessary. If that was not so he thought is also a disease. That is to say, it is field for many hours and corroborated
so likely to become the scene of a war of of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Togo Kisen Kaisha, which had been final reverses and retreats, which really the microbes that the damage to bones his name and that of his book), who said the evidence of another witness (I forget. in the Colony of Hongkong, for term and puid a dividend of 15 per cent. The the House should take note of these con
and tissues is often less dangerous to that, when he visited the battlefield CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Sarveyer losing, accumulated during the last teas amounted to disasters, and that the Gov
the patient than the infection trouble. next day, he seemed to be standing on of HIS MAJESTY THE KING, for one further reserve of over one million and paid a fernment ought to give more information.
dividend of 12 per cent..
particularly with regard to Kut, thanOn the other hand the wastage owing to the sad sea-shore-the confused crying. term of 75 years.
they had hitherto given.
specific diseases has been very much less of the wounded was like the sound of The smaller companies, as well as
Lord Islington said that if any repre than it was in South Africa. Enteric, surf, the savour of bloodshed was a private owners, are reaping a harvest. The Meiji Marine Transport Company, sentations were made by General Towne which was more deadly than the Boer tang in the morning breeze. My friends. with capital of only 123,000, from Lend prior to his attempted advance on bullets, a virtually non-existent thanks tale of the horrors of an operation without January to October last year had a gross fitesiphon they would have been address to compulsory inoculation a wise safe anaesthetics is best left antide Such inegime of over a million you and cleared to Si William Nixon, but no such ard with only a handful of proles horrors, and also the high ruortality due a prost of 1.049,000. The Uchida recommendation or representation had sional antis" have ventured to criticise to septic infection, are things of the un- Steamship Company with a capital of own reported Lome. As had been stated Other new factors have rendered the scientist past. Science, on the whole, is Y230,000, paid a 000 per cent, dividend by the Secretary for India, the advance work of the Medical Service more diffi- marey in warfare; for if it has greatly for the l
last term, France, through her was anthorized by the Government on the tuli in various ways. Chief of these is increased the power, precision, and Ambassador in Tokio, has made special advice of the General Offer Command the use of the pointed bullet this war 1786,50 application to Japan for the charter ofing in Moxpotamia and the Government is the first in which it has been univer variety of war's weapons, it has to an several steamships for transport service of India. As to whether General Towne Colonel, B. M. Pilcher's introduction to tive resourers. In point of fact, medi sally used, and, according to Lieutenant-even greater extent developed our-cera- what they can to respond, but the Japart Commanding, the Government had no in known to surgeons as the Pointed Bullet able to achieve with their busy pens. And and the Japanese authorities are doing thend was consulted by the General Officer Major Hull's treatise, it will always be cine has done more to mitigate the ordeal of battle than all the legalists have been notes and owners are too well hamation. He was unable to give any War. The pointed bullet is less merciful of far more consequence than the atroci (670. satisfied with prospects at home to think romise in regard to the publication of than the blant, ogival tipped bullet of tics committed
of speculating further afield; and so dispatches. At this moment it would be former times, though the non-scientific against our wounded is the disposition by German soldiers SHAKE OFF THE CLUTCH is quite unlikely that Japan will be able in the highest degree injurious to the person would of rheumatism, the greatest enemy to the to accommodate France in this way.
never have guessed it, of German military surgeons to restrict, national welfare that anything of a do Experience shows (1) that its shattering even in dealing with their own people, of man. peace
The decision of the Nippon Fuse tailed character in regard to either the effects on bone are more marked, (2) that the mercifulness of medical science. The You can do it... As evidence of this you have but to co-avoid-enemy submarines, is proving, a
Kaisha liners to take the Cape route, to past or the present should be made pub-its tendency to turn on impact makes it use of the whistle really a pistolTM in Sider any one of the thonsands of eres hardship to shippers sending goods the operations had been transferred from it causes
ic. Since February 16th: the conduct of more destructive to effects at the disguise, is a striking example of a re---
-tissues, - (3) that That have been effected by the use of French ports, and the Government's the India Office to the War Office. He longer ranges, and (4) that it is rather forced on them, against their better in
explosive LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALM
trograde tendency which is, perhaps, Many of those cured were told by their announcement that insurance and freight was obliged to give this imperfect answer more liable to break up. We ought to tentions, by the ruthless German War physicians that there was no hope. They rates on the Suez route will be raised is by reason of the public interest. The have known that it was less humane lords. They certainly do act on the adage had resigned themselves to lives of rack causing further discouragement. Ships Coverament had no wish to evade re than the old projectile, seeing that the that time and trouble should not be... ICE HOUSE STREET. TEL 230-155. lng torture painfilled bours of foe and page to sen per ton, and those west sponsibility for what had taken place, Germans were the first to introduce point spent on à medical forlorn hope. The
misery.
They not thought possible. Then they heard of LITTLE'S that island 25 sen per ton, while the and at the proper time, and when the ed bullets. We should have known it wounded German soldier whose case looks: 108
***** | ORIENTAL - BALM,
With
freight on all goods from Japan to public interest would not suffer injury, was so if we had had a clearer insight
Icfaure ?! application their pain grew less, their London by way of Suez will go an they would be prepared to face the closest during peace time into the mentality of hopeless is often left to die at his the Huna, who are scientific savages, and phrase). But our surgeons do not thus (a British soldier's tumorous swellings
possible scrutiny and examination
·wont.: down their joints from 35 sen per ton to one yen. The Viscount Midleton, while appreciating had thought out all sorts of subtle harha subordinate humanity to military con
is still complaint as to lack of shipppg BOUND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG straightened out--they were free-free as facilities to Australia, with which for the necessity of a certain amount of re- cuts out humanity as far as possible venience, and they are rewarded by many
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try Japan has enjoyed a remarkable xticence, expressed a hope that dispatches On Sale at the "Hongxose Daily Pams'
Agents for Hongkong:- pansion of trade during the past year, relating to the earlier stages of the opera and that is why they adopted the pointed quite incredible successes and by a wealth of observed facts in cases where they have Meurs. A. S. Watson & Co., Em. exports increasing from 10 to 16 million tions in Mesopotamia might be published
surely deserved to succecil-E. OSBORN [078-12- and imports from 13 to 25 millions. as soon as possible. Hongkong, 10th Marah' 1918.
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